New Orleans Bets Big on Biomedical Corridor Post Katrina

But Obama’s plan to sound a fresh alarm about climate change didn’t sit well with Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican waging a long-shot bid for his party’s presidential nomination who told the president that the anniversary is a time to mourn the loss of loved ones, not to espouse “the divisive political agenda of liberal environmental activism”.

A decade letter, black and white New Orleans have widely divergent views of the recovery.

In part two: what does a once-bohemian wine store and restaurant in one of the city’s fastest gentrifying neighborhoods show us about the cultural transformation that part of town is undergoing?

New Orleans was still reeling from Katrina’s aftermath when Obama first took office in 2009, and his trip will give him the chance to frame the city’s recovery as a success for his administration.

Michael Brown said: “When the president made the flyover, I was in contact with Air Force One and said, “I need the President to land”. New Orleans had always been plagued by structural inequality that left too many people, especially poor people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing. Even if it were possible to move, the disruption and cost would be far more than what it would take to protect the region. This film will also be showcased at the Media Center in downtown New Orleans. And it’s those storm surges that are of particular focus where levees are concerned. “We have the music, we have the food, the laissez les bon temps rouler, which means “let the good times roll”, Brunet said. The area’s inhabitants had either fled or they were dead. He says he noticed, “The French Quarter, which was rebuilt nearly immediately, and then you look at the Ninth Ward and it looks like Katrina hit yesterday”. She appreciates the millions of dollars that were pumped into the city’s reconstruction efforts. “It was a massive response but people choose to ignore that”, he said. Bourbon Street and the French Quarter are booming, and so is business.

Immediately before Katrina the population of New Orleans was 480,000.

Clinton will visit New Orleans on Saturday for the Power of Community gathering – the city’s signature commemorative event, held on the official anniversary of Katrina’s landfall that will demonstrate New Orleans’ resilience. A few months after the storm it was half that.

Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans on August. 29, 2005, killing at least 1,500 people, displacing 90 percent the city’s residents and causing US$150 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. This is where they have the resources to return to if we’re able to help them.

He’s been at the helm for five years and is optimistic about the future.

“That water included the sewage of New Orleans, it included the people who died that were floating in that water, it included all the gasoline and everything that comes from every vehicle that was flooded”, Marcantel said.